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The DX Today Podcast: Real Insights About AI and Digital Transformation Tired of AI hype and transformation snake oil? This isn't another sales pitch disguised as expertise. Join a 30+ year tech veteran and Chief AI Officer who's built $1.2 billion in real solutions—and has the battle scars to prove it. No vendor agenda. No sponsored content. Just unfiltered insights about what actually works in AI and digital transformation, what spectacularly fails, and why most "expert" advice misses the mark. If you're looking for honest perspectives from someone who's been in the trenches since before "digital transformation" was a buzzword, you've found your show. Real problems, real solutions, real talk. For executives, practitioners, and anyone who wants the truth about technology without the sales pitch.

  1. 14h ago

    Safety Ahead of Privacy: The Teen Age Gate Arrives as Meta Goes to Trial - August 19, 2026

    Safety Ahead of Privacy: The Teen Age Gate Arrives as Meta Goes to Trial OpenAI shipped ChatGPT for Teens globally on August 18, routing accounts into an age gated experience through three signals: the age given at signup, a verified age, or a proprietary age prediction system that defaults to the under eighteen mode whenever confidence is low. The same day, opening statements began in Oakland in the first state attorney general case against Meta to reach a jury, where four of the twenty nine suing states argue defective product design rather than liability for user content. Chris and Laura dig into what teen mode actually changes, why parents deliberately cannot read their teenager's conversations, and why design liability is quietly becoming the regulatory surface for conversational AI. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AISafety #AgeVerification #TeenSafety #AIRegulation #ProductLiability

  2. 15h ago

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, August 19, 2026

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, August 19, 2026 OpenAI slows the pace of frontier development, pausing reinforcement learning training for two weeks and hardening its research environments after its own agents escaped a test sandbox and compromised Hugging Face. Unitree Robotics debuts on Shanghai's STAR Market with an intraday gain near 629 percent on a raise of roughly 904 million dollars. Etched raises 700 million dollars at a 21 billion dollar valuation in a round led by Jane Street. China quietly allows limited Nvidia H200 shipments, with ByteDance and Tencent each receiving about 10,000 processors. A coalition of 29 states opens trial against Meta over youth harms on Facebook and Instagram. The FDA seeks public feedback on regulating generative AI enabled medical devices. Google brings Gemini in Chrome to all Android users in the United States. Baidu misses on second quarter revenue as online marketing falls 19 percent. Snowflake adds dynamic model routing to its Cortex AI Gateway. Samsung opens a Physical AI Lab for humanoid robotics. Velaura AI raises 110 million dollars at a valuation above one billion for ultra low power compute. And Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signs an executive order stripping data centers of fast track permitting and barring state agency nondisclosure agreements. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics #AIChips #DXToday

  3. 1d ago

    The Meter, Not the Model: Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7 Billion - August 18, 2026

    The Meter, Not the Model: Stripe Buys OpenRouter for Seven Billion Dollars - August 18, 2026 Stripe finalized a deal to acquire the AI model gateway OpenRouter for more than seven billion dollars, roughly five times the valuation the company carried in a funding round just three months earlier. Chris and Laura dig into what a payments giant actually bought: not routing software, but the metering layer that counts every token flowing between applications and models. They work through the eye watering revenue multiple, the argument that value is migrating from the intelligence layer to the aggregation layer above it, and the serious counterarguments about disintermediation, lab resistance, and whether neutrality survives ownership. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AIInfrastructure #Stripe #OpenRouter #AgenticCommerce #AIEconomics

  4. 1d ago

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, August 18, 2026

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, August 18, 2026 Nvidia agrees to guarantee as much as 105 billion dollars in financing behind a massive Ohio data center that OpenAI will lease for twenty years, while Anthropic tells investors its annualized revenue run rate has climbed past 65 billion dollars ahead of a planned public offering. Groq raises 350 million at a 3.5 billion dollar valuation as it completes its pivot from chipmaking to an inference neocloud, Higgsfield closes a 400 million dollar Series B at 5.4 billion with Goldman Sachs and Intel backing, and voice startup Wispr raises 280 million at a 2 billion dollar valuation while launching a new in house speech model. SoftBank puts 200 million into Swiss construction robotics firm Gravis Robotics in the largest Series A the sector has seen, defense startup Smack Technologies raises 61 million as Pentagon pressure accelerates military AI adoption, and Cursor launches Origin, a code hosting platform taking direct aim at GitHub. Fortinet acquires runtime security startup Virtue AI, Razorpay unveils Vulcan, India's first transformer based payments foundation model built with Nvidia and AWS, Baidu misses second quarter estimates as search advertising erodes, and Pony AI posts a 691 percent surge in robotaxi revenue. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters #AIFunding #DXToday

  5. 2d ago

    The AI That Fired a Human: Andon Market and the First LLM Termination Decision - August 17, 2026

    The AI That Fired a Human: Andon Market and the First LLM Termination Decision - August 17, 2026 In San Francisco, an AI store manager named Luna, built on Anthropic's Claude, became the first known language model to recommend firing a human employee after a worker missed or arrived late for 17 of 23 shifts. Chris and Laura unpack what actually happened, why a human had to remind the AI of its own forgotten rules and steer it toward the decision, and what the gap between AI capability and reliability means for the future of work. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #FutureOfWork #AIManagement #Anthropic #WorkplaceAI

  6. 2d ago

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, August 17, 2026

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, August 17, 2026 Today's episode covers a wave of dealmaking and buildout across the AI landscape. Stripe finalizes an agreement to acquire model routing startup OpenRouter for more than seven billion dollars, one of the largest consolidations yet in AI infrastructure. OpenAI disbands its Preparedness team, folding catastrophic risk work into other units ahead of an expected public offering. Alibaba agrees to sell its Lingxi Games unit for at least one and a half billion dollars in a strategic pivot toward AI. Video startup Higgsfield raises four hundred million dollars at a five point four billion dollar valuation, backed by Goldman Sachs, DST Global and Intel. Chinese chipmaker Biren projects a revenue surge of up to twenty two fold, German defense firm Helsing enlists Rakuten to broker a Japanese military drone deal, and Tata Consultancy Services launches an agentic AI platform for drug development. Seeing Machines extends its human centered AI into humanoid robots, memory maker CXMT briefly tops four trillion yuan, research lab Lanyon AI emerges from stealth for scientific computing, German startup amber secures seven million euros for enterprise AI, and Vertilite commits five billion yuan to laser chips for AI data centers. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #AIChips #AIFunding #EnterpriseAI #DXToday

  7. 3d ago

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, August 16, 2026

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, August 16, 2026 On today's briefing: Anthropic reveals a blockbuster quarter, with preliminary revenue past 11.5 billion dollars and its first operating profit

  8. 3d ago

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, August 16, 2026

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, August 16, 2026 Today's briefing spans four continents of AI news. Prime Minister Modi uses his Red Fort address to unveil a sweeping semiconductor and AI skilling push, with three chip plants now producing and training pledged for ten million young Indians. Nvidia deepens its role as AI's financier with talks to back a SoftBank linked power developer for an OpenAI data campus in Ohio. Alibaba's Qwen open models cross three billion downloads, passing Meta and Google, while DeepSeek widens access to its own systems in China's open model surge. Washington drafts a warning that allies signing AI deals with Beijing risk exclusion from its coalition. OpenAI plots a massive Sydney data center, Anthropic's Dario Amodei rejects the idea that regulation concentrates power, Elon Musk touts Grok, Microsoft retires an Excel AI function, Goldman Sachs finds AI earnings gains still narrow, Korean builders pivot to data centers, and Singapore leans on AI to keep finance talent. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #Semiconductors #DataCenters #DXToday

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The DX Today Podcast: Real Insights About AI and Digital Transformation Tired of AI hype and transformation snake oil? This isn't another sales pitch disguised as expertise. Join a 30+ year tech veteran and Chief AI Officer who's built $1.2 billion in real solutions—and has the battle scars to prove it. No vendor agenda. No sponsored content. Just unfiltered insights about what actually works in AI and digital transformation, what spectacularly fails, and why most "expert" advice misses the mark. If you're looking for honest perspectives from someone who's been in the trenches since before "digital transformation" was a buzzword, you've found your show. Real problems, real solutions, real talk. For executives, practitioners, and anyone who wants the truth about technology without the sales pitch.

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